PLATES XVIII. AND XIX. 



BOTANICAL GARDEN, KOISHIKAWA. 



These grounds, which belong to the Imperial Educational Department, are 

 partially devoted to the cultivation of exotic plants and trees, and are called the 

 Shokubutsu-En, or Botanical Gardens, of Tokio. In consequence of their miscellaneous 

 character, certain portions exhibit the stiff formality of European gardens, but other 

 parts still preserve the purely Japanese style of the original design, as executed a 

 century and a half ago for the Daimio of Sagara, the original owner of the site. 

 The full page illustration of Plate XVIII. shows a portion of the lake and surround- 

 ing Kills of the garden, the former covered with water-weed and fringed with rocks 

 and bushes, and the latter clad with coniferous evergreens and rounded bushes. 

 Occasional ornamental rocks, a lantern, and a group of dwarf palms constitute other 

 interesting features of the surrounding areas. Set back amid the shadow of some 

 pine-trees my be seen the vertical rocks marking the head of the lake, which near 

 this point is crossed by a granite bridge. Plate XIX. presents another view of the 

 lake, and the grassy mounds surrounding it which carry quite a number of neat 

 rounded bushes. Below, on the same Plate, may be seen a group of lotuses, and 

 other detail in the form of bushes, a stone lantern, and a leaning pine-tree. The 

 illustrations of this garden are produced from photographs taken by Mr. K. Ogawa, 

 and are remarkable as showing with great clearness the delicate detail of the different 

 kinds of foliage in which Japanese gardens abound. 



